wpse-playlist

WordPress - Playlist shortcode with support for external audio and video files.

Description

This plugin allows you to use external audio or video files with the native WordPress playlist, through the use of a shortcode.

This started as an answer on WordPress StackExchange, see here, hence the name wpse-playlist.

The plugin works on PHP 5.3+ and WordPress 4.0+

Tested up to WordPress 5.8.1

It supports the GitHub Updater.

Supported shortcodes and default attributes:

[_playlist type="audio" 
               class="wpse-playlist" 
               current="true" 
               autoplay="false" 
               style="light" 
               tracklist="true" 
               tracknumbers="true" 
               images="true" 
               artists="true" 
               width="" 
               height=""
               outer="20"
               default_width="640"
               default_height="380"]
    [_track src="https://github.com/birgire/wpse-playlist/raw/master/" 
               title="" 
               type="audio/mpeg" 
               caption="" 
               description="" 
               image="" 
               meta_artist="" 
               meta_album="" 
               meta_genre=""
               meta_length_formatted=""
               image_src="https://github.com/birgire/wpse-playlist/raw/master/%s/wp-includes/images/media/%s.png" 
               image_width="48" 
               image_height="64"
               thumb_src="https://github.com/birgire/wpse-playlist/raw/master/%s/wp-includes/images/media/%s.png" 
               thumb_width="48" 
               thumb_height="64"
               dimensions_original_width="300" 
               dimensions_original_height="200"
               dimensions_resized_width="600" 
               dimensions_resized_height="400"]
[/_playlist]

where one can add multiple [_track], one for each track, inside [_playlist].

The shortcodes [wpse_trac] and [wpse_playlist] are also supported, but are deprecated.

When the width and height is empty, the global $content_width is used to calculate these values.

When the playlist type is "video" the track type is automatically set to "video/mp4" as the default value.

The attributes artists, images, meta_artist, meta_album and meta_genre are only audio related.

Similarly the dimensions_original_width, dimensions_original_height, dimensions_resized_width, dimensions_resized_height are only video related.

Demo

Check it out here.

Example 1

A simple example for the audio playlist:

[_playlist]
   [_track title="Ain't Misbehavin'" src="https://github.com/birgire/wpse-playlist/raw/master//s.w.org/images/core/3.9/AintMisbehavin.mp3"]
   [_track title="Buddy Bolden's Blues" src="https://github.com/birgire/wpse-playlist/raw/master//s.w.org/images/core/3.9/JellyRollMorton-BuddyBoldensBlues.mp3"]
[/_playlist]

Example 2

The vanilla audio version is generated with:

[_playlist type="audio" current="no" tracklist="yes" tracknumbers="no" images="no" artist="no"]
    [_track title="Davenport Blues" src="https://github.com/birgire/wpse-playlist/raw/master//s.w.org/images/core/3.9/DavenportBlues.mp3"]
    [_track title="Dixie Blues" src="https://github.com/birgire/wpse-playlist/raw/master//s.w.org/images/core/3.9/Louisiana_Five-Dixie_Blues-1919.mp3"]
[/_playlist]

Example 3

The video playlist can be generated with:

[_playlist type="video"]
    [_track caption="Live widgets previews in WordPress 3.9" src="https://github.com/birgire/wpse-playlist/raw/master//s.w.org/images/core/3.9/widgets.mp4" image_src="https://github.com/birgire/wpse-playlist/raw/master/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/widgets_screen.png"]
    [_track caption="Another cool video showing how live widgets previews works in WordPress 3.9" src="https://github.com/birgire/wpse-playlist/raw/master//s.w.org/images/core/3.9/widgets.mp4" image_src="https://github.com/birgire/wpse-playlist/raw/master/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/widgets_screen2.png"]
[/_playlist]

Any suggestions are welcomed.

Changelog

0.0.11 (2023-01-13)

- Fixed: Some formatting issues.
- Fixed: Removed an unused constant and added instead a Requires header just for info.

0.0.10 (2023-01-13)

- Fixed: Issue #20 re-evaluated by using esc_url_raw to support multiple GET parameters in Google Drive links (Props: @honoluluman2, @mikigp)

0.0.9 (2015-08-02)

- Fixed: Issue #7 by using true/false instead of 1/0 (Props: @X-PRESSIVE)

0.0.7 (2015-03-08)

- Added: New shortcodes [_playlist] and [_track].
- Deprecated: The support for the shortcodes [wpse_playlist] and [wpse_trac] will phase out.

0.0.6 (2015-03-07)

- Added: Support for the autoplay attribute.
- Added: Support for the GitHub Updater. (Probs: @BlaineMoore)
- Added: More info in the README.md file.
- Changed: Refactored regarding late escaping.
- Changed: Replaced filter_var() with wp_validate_boolean(), so we need WordPress 4.0+.
- Fixed: Some minor adjustments.

0.0.5

- Fixed: added the missing script class to support WordPress 4.0 (Props: @ruLait)

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